For Project Supervisors
This topic contains information for supervisors of individual Bachelor's and Master's thesis projects who want their students to use the cluster.
Important Restrictions
Please read carefully:
- This is a shared cluster, primarily for courses. GPU count and time per student as well as storage is limited.
- The cluster is down for maintenance in the week before each semester starts. This is non-negotiable. The supervisor and student have to account for this when planning the project schedule.
- Project length is limited to six months.
- For technical and administrative reasons a student can only do one project concurrently.
Projects
The following
project tags with predefined resources and restrictions are available.
All students are added to
projects and
projects_jupyter (for
Jupyter) by default with the above GPU hours as time budget. Changes are possible but need to be justified:
- Addition to
projects_4gpus instead of projects can be requested separately for students who need multiple GPUs for technical reasons and not for more performance.
- The number of GPU hours can be increased moderately.
Access for Supervisors
Supervisors also get access to the cluster but without CPU and GPU hours.
Data
Students will get a home directory with 20GB space which will also be used for courses that they take.
In addition a work directory under
/work/projects will be provided. The work directory will be named after the login name of the student. Default size is 20GB. More can be requested with a justification. Maximum size is 100GB. The directory will be deleted when the project ends.
The supervisor of a student automatically gets read and write access to the work directory.
Usage
Instructions for students, how to use the cluster and how to troubleshoot issues can be found
here.
Request
To request access for a student a supervisor (not the student) can send a mail to
our service desk with the following text:
Subject: Access to student cluster for student project
Please enable access to the student cluster for a student project:
Professor/Group:
Student user name or ETH mail address:
Supervisor user name or ETH mail address:
Project start: now
Project last day: (start date + 179 days)
"project" hours: 720
"project_jupyter" hours: 100
"project_4gpus" hours: 0
Work space GB: 20
Comment:
(Justification if you increase any of the numbers above)
